The Space Between Us Is an Extraterrestrial Love Story

The Space Between Us is a story of a young Martian boy who falls in love with a girl on Earth. It seems that his love is similar to what any ordinary human being may experience. This is the highly-relatable aspect of the movie.

Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) is a sixteen-year-old boy whom his mother delivered on Mars. She was an astronaut on a mission to Mars (Red Planet). However, she was pregnant when she went there without the knowledge of her team. The delivery was successful but his mother did not survive the complication of his birth.

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He grew up and when he was a teenager, he met a teenager from Earth named Tulsa (Britt Robertson) through the internet. There was a problem on his journey to earth to meet his lady love. Because of the lighter gravity in Mars, Gardner cannot tolerate the strain of Earth. This posed a problem with the people he came to know. His body finds it hard to adjust to the temperature and gravity of the earth, but he must endure in order to find Tulsa and his father.

Director Peter Chelsom described the love story as very universal, according to Space. Gardner is in search for connection. According to producer Richard Barton Lewis, he tries to know and understand his persona and his innate earthly being. Gardner cannot deny the fact of his humanity that he is not aware of. After all, he is still human and that will eventually manifest in his character and behavior.

The setting is in the future and astronauts went into space using a modified space shuttle. Gardner grows up in the midst of engineers and scientists. He only has a robot as a companion and a long-distance friendship with Tulsa.

The Space Between Us Is a Love That Knows No Bounds

The trailer features Tulsa and Gardner as they communicated from two different planets. She is on Earth and Gardner is on Mars. Gardner will experience culture shock when he comes to associate with the Earthlings. But despite the undesirable experiences, he feels determined to find his father and Tulsa. His world orbits around his desire to go to Earth.

The Space Between Us cast also includes Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, B.D. Wong, Janet Montgomery, Trey Tucker, Scott Takeda, and Adande Thorne. The film was originally set for release on July 29, 2016, but was reset several times until they set its debut on February 3, 2017.